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DEFINITION: To pose, or posture, in a distinctive manner in order to express one's cultural affinities -- may be accompanied by awkward gestures.
Verboticisms
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Metoocool
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Me - too - kool
Sentence: Her flip-flops scraping against the concrete were evidence of her metoocool attempts to be different from the rest of us.
Etymology: Me - one's own self; I Too - to an excessive degree Cool - fashionable; hip
Classture
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Klars-chur
Sentence: Harry's classture consisted of displaying copious amounts of bling, making West-side hand movements, and lamenting his social environment. He was, of course, the typical British "chav" (NB I'm not an authority on chavs).
Etymology: Class+gesture, but also a mutation of "culture" to suggest 'culture derived from social class'.
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COMMENTS:
Good one Discoveria! Also like the way it rhymes with posture... - wordmeister, 2007-01-29: 19:08:00
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Suburgang
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: sub-urg-ang
Sentence: He planned to suburgang it up in his fraternity's house picture.
Etymology: suburb + gang, rich kids throwing gang signs
Mysposturing
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: MY-spos-CHUR-ing
Sentence: I hate how these kids these days only take photos of themselves when they're MySposturing
Etymology: MySpace.com + Posturing
Flintstonerisms
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: Flint/stohn/er/isms
Sentence: The group of young people dancing, prancing and gesticulating could only be described as an exhibition of their Flintstonerisms.
Etymology: Flintstones + stoners + mannerisms
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COMMENTS:
yabadabado - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-29: 10:36:00
But dinosaurs can do the flintstonerisms too... - wordmeister, 2007-01-29: 10:41:00
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Chimposture
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: chim-PAWS-tuhr
Sentence: "Yo, dawg! you gots to sport your ipod, like banging! You is all schlumped ovah." Allie sighed. It seems she would never get the hang of proper chimposturing at her new school. Life had been so much simpler at St. Margaret's.
Etymology: Chimp (anzee) + (im) posture
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COMMENTS:
This is good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-29: 19:04:00
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Goofinity
Created by: pandafever
Pronunciation: goo-fen-ity
Sentence: My goofinity was immortalized in my yearbook picture.
Etymology:
Gesturemote
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: jest-yer-e-mote
Sentence: Frank and Carla are both drama queens and will always sprinkle their conversations with gesturemotes, dramatic flairs intended to 'punctuate' their expressions of their points of view.
Etymology: Blend of 'gesture' (a movement of part of the body, esp. a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning) and 'emote' (portray emotion in a theatrical manner)
Overgesturalize
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: oh-vurr-jess-chur-all-ayze
Sentence: most people tend to overgesturalize for every photograph.
Etymology: over+gesture+generalize
Turkeystrut
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation:
Sentence: they turkeystrutted their way around the mall, recieving much attention and comment.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
better turkeys than chickens, I suppose... - wordmeister, 2007-01-29: 23:44:00
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